[Qcwa] interesting facts

[Joseph Ames Jr.]

I originally heard that as applied to English ship captains.  The feminists
were the first I heard of it in connection to wife beating.

Joe Ames W3JY
Bryn Mawr, Pa


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert and Janeth Harvey" <robert.harvey at pandora.be>
To: "'Discussion of QCWA'" <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 4:49 PM
Subject: RE: [Qcwa] interesting facts



Those are great!  I've seen some of that list before, but there are
several new ones.  I wonder if they are true, and if anyone has validated
them?  One that is conspicuously missing is the following:

In old England, men were forbidden from beating their wives with any stick
thicker than their thumb, hence the Rule Of Thumb.

I wonder if that got edited out by the PC police?  I always thought
it was one of the most suprising of the list.

73,

Harv
K2PI
Brussels, Belgium


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